This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two dierent scenarios for its … 2020, the pandemic (and the observed private and policy responses) has generated at least 68 million additional poverty …

the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … designed to preserve real purchasing power in poor countries, the revisions lead to relatively small changes in global poverty …

We axiomatically characterize two classes of poverty measures which are sensitive to inequality of opportunity – one a … strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty line, but also …-dependent aggregation of type-specific poverty levels, is also introduced. Using household survey data from eighteen European countries in …